“There’s always a little weak point, an Achilles tendon — and that’s what I’m looking for,” Mutu says of her work with museums. “How do you excavate the truth in a territory that has done so much to tidy up the evidence of very, very disturbing secrets? The fun part for me is to find them — that little [place] where the sound eases out of the wooden floors, and you go, ‘Uh oh, there’s something under there’.”
Image: Portrait of Wangechi MutuPhotography by Khadija Farah
June 7 2025
